My hands are too big, too callused and scarred to be holding something so
very tiny.
My hands are shaking as they hold something so small, so precious and so very full of symbolism. Little one, you have your mother's eyes with a hint of your great- grandmother Galadriel's wisdom shining back at me in your wide midnight blue eyes. The knowledge that she has could fill infinite years and I hope I have her wisdom in raising you to be a child truly worthy of your enormous heritage.
You, my darling child are the light of your mother's dreams, the hope of my advisors and the proof that this was not a dream, that all the years of waiting and hoping to have your mother as my own, were not in vain. I swear to protect you and to show you all that I have seen, to be as wise as you seem to be now as you sleepily regard me and the gathered family with what passes as baby elven disdain. Be strong, honest and brave but above all the things Melyanna, be proud of who you are. That is all that this proud ada can ask for you.
My hands are shaking as they hold something so small, so precious and so very full of symbolism. Little one, you have your mother's eyes with a hint of your great- grandmother Galadriel's wisdom shining back at me in your wide midnight blue eyes. The knowledge that she has could fill infinite years and I hope I have her wisdom in raising you to be a child truly worthy of your enormous heritage.
You, my darling child are the light of your mother's dreams, the hope of my advisors and the proof that this was not a dream, that all the years of waiting and hoping to have your mother as my own, were not in vain. I swear to protect you and to show you all that I have seen, to be as wise as you seem to be now as you sleepily regard me and the gathered family with what passes as baby elven disdain. Be strong, honest and brave but above all the things Melyanna, be proud of who you are. That is all that this proud ada can ask for you.